Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Brisbane City Council's Q100 assessment: How climate risk management becomes scientised
Abstract This paper provides a report of climate risk management for the city of Brisbane between 1976 and 2011. Using the evidence presented by the Commission of Inquiry established to investigate extreme flooding events across Queensland in...
2015 / Peter Tangney -
Planning and Design Elements for Transit Oriented Developments/Smart Cities: Examples of Cultural Borrowings
Abstract Cultural borrowing is about creative ideas that are driven forward by key people to help transform urban settlements into better places. Evidence-based planning, access to information, and globalisation are defining characteristics of...
2016 / John Black, Kam Tara, Parisa Pakzad -
Options for socioeconomic developments in ICZM for the tri-national Wadden area
Abstract The Wadden Sea Forum has adopted integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) as a process for achieving the sustainable development of the Wadden Sea in a way that is environmentally sound, economically viable and socially beneficial. This...
2015 / Jouke van Dijk, Lourens Broersma, Nora Mehnen -
Policy entrepreneurship in UK central government: The behavioural insights team and the use of randomized controlled trials2013 / P. John
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Leadership within regional climate change adaptation networks: the case of climate adaptation officers in Northern Hesse, Germany2015 / Sabina Stiller, Sander Meijerink
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Integrating Multiple Geometric Representations within Spatial Data Warehouse Structures for Enhanced Collaborative Decision-Making Processes
Abstract Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSSs) have been successfully used to help decision-makers in several application domains. When it comes to enabling the collaboration of all these decision-makers with one common SDSS, a Spatial Data...
2015 / Boubaker Boulekrouche, Hedi Haddad, Nafaâ Jabeur, Zaia Alimazighi -
Reviews: Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies, The Changing Governance of Renewable Natural Resources in Northwest Russia, Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity, Governing the Tap: Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water2013 / Susan Park, Michael Bradshaw, Charlie Wilson, Alison Browne
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Protected areas and regional development: conflicts and opportunities - presented on the example of the UNESCO biosphere reserve Bliesgau2012 / Wioletta Frys, Birte Nienaber
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Evaluating the Efficiency of Urban Activity Chains
Abstract Many city logistic initiatives are large in scale and aim to improve the efficiency and overall state of goods movement within our urban areas. Unfortunately the implementation and day-to-day operations of urban goods movement is less than...
2016 / Johan W. Joubert -
How do drivers overtake cyclists?
Abstract In Europe, the number of road crashes is steadily decreasing every year. However, the incidence of bicycle crashes is not declining as fast as that of car crashes. In Sweden, cyclists are the most frequently injured road users. Collisions...
2015 / Marco Dozza, Ron Schindler, Giulio Bianchi-Piccinini, Johan Karlsson -
The work-related affordances of business travel: a disaggregated analysis of journey stage and mode of transport2015 / D. Hislop, C. Axtell
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Tracing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Description, Theory and Practice2015 / Hayley Leck, Declan Conway, Michael Bradshaw, Judith Rees
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Challenges and Prospects for Scaling-up Ecological Restoration to Meet International Commitments: Colombia as a Case Study2015 / Carolina Murcia, Manuel R. Guariguata, Ángela Andrade, Germán Ignacio Andrade, James Aronson, et al.
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Learning from the history of disaster vulnerability and resilience research and practice for climate change2016 / I. Kelman, J. C. Gaillard, James Lewis, Jessica Mercer
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One Rural, two Visions — Environmental Issues and Images on Rural Areas in Portugal2009 / Elisabete Figueiredo
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Design Capitalism: Design, Economics and Innovation in the Auto-Industrial Age
Abstract Automation is replacing white-collar office work and non-dexterous manual work, causing major structural change in the job market. As advanced economies shift from a post-industrial to an auto-industrial model, all kinds of routine work is...
2015 / Peter Murphy -
Population redistribution in the Polish Carpathians during the 19th and 20th centuries2012 / Maria Soja
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Transformations of the Employment Structure as an Expression of the Transformation of Polish Industry Against the Background of the European Union2011 / Tomasz Rachwał
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Power, nature, and the city. The conquest of water and the political ecology of urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador: 1880 - 19902006 / E Swyngedouw
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Diffusion, social structure and functioning of scientific rural networks: comparison of European and Finish examples2011 / Toivo Muilu, Niina Kotavaara